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Dictionary Results For "tennis" [?]/[OPML]
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English

Etymology

, second-person imperative of {{term|tenir|lang=fro||hold}}.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /tɛn.ɪs/


Noun

  1. A sport played by either two or four players with strung racquets, a 2-1/2" (6.4 cm) ball, and a net approximately 3 feet high on a clay, grass, or cement court.


Translations

  • Interlingua: tennis
  • Italian: {{t+|it|tennis|m}}
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|テニス|tr=tenisu|sc=Jpan}}
  • Korean: 테니스 (teniseu)
  • Maltese: {{t-|mt|tenis|xs=Maltese}}
  • Polish: {{t-|pl|tenis ziemny|m}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|tênis|m}}
  • Russian: {{t-|ru|теннис|m|tr=ténnis|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|tenis|m}}
  • Swedish:
  • Tamil: வரிப்பந்தாட்டம் (varippandhaattam)

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Finnish

Etymology

From .

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ten·nis
  • IPA: lang=fi


Noun

  1. #English|tennis


Derived terms


Category:fi:Sports

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French

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Fr-tennis.ogg


Noun

  1. #English|tennis


Category:fr:Sports

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Italian

Noun

{{infl|it|noun|gender=m}}

  1. #English|tennis


Related terms


Category:it:Sports

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tennis \Ten"nis\, n. [OE. tennes, tenies, tenyse; of uncertain
origin, perhaps fr. F. tenez hold or take it, fr. tenir to
hold (see Tenable).]
A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in
motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]

His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing
and playing tennis, . . . were familiar to all London.
--Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]

Court tennis, the old game of tennis as played within
walled courts of peculiar construction; -- distinguished
from lawn tennis.

Lawn tennis. See under Lawn, n.

Tennis court, a place or court for playing the game of
tennis. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tennis \Ten"nis\, v. t.
To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.
[R.] --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet tennis
n : a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a
ball back and forth over a net that divides the court
[syn: lawn tennis]
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